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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms. Nanette Silukhuni" <polycom@us.muramoto.com>
Reply-To: silukhuninanette100@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 06:08:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Ms. Nanette Silukhuni

Dear friend,



I am Ms. Nanette Silukhuni, the mistress to the former Zimbabwean Finance and Economics Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo, an ardent confidant to former Zimbabwe leader Mr. Robert Gabriel Mugabe and also a member of G40 that backed our former leader. Following the recent rebellion in my country and the brutal and painful exit of His Excellency Mr. Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Tuesday the 21st of Nov. 2017, I have been thrown into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness; I have been subjected to physical and psychological torture by the security agents in Zimbabwe where we seek refuge at South Africa High Commission at present.



My son and I are planning to seek our refugee status to be extending to South Africa where I bought an apartment. As my fiancé is under scrutiny by the current regime, I am so traumatized; I have lost confidence with anybody within the country. You must have heard over the media reports and the internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money deposited by my fiancé in different security firms abroad, some companies willingly give up their secrets and disclosed our money confidently lodged there or many outright blackmail. In fact the total sum discovered by the Government so far is in the tune ofUS$26Million.(Twenty Six Million United State Dollars)

They are not relenting to make me poor for life; I got your contact email address through my research and out of desperation decided to reach you through this medium. I will give you more information as to this regard as soon as you reply. I repose great confidence in you hence my approach to you due to security network placed on my day to day affairs I cannot afford to visit the embassy so that is why I decided to contact you and I hope you will not betray my confidence in you.



I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your account for safe keeping. This arrangement is known to you and my son alone. I am seriously considering relocating to your country once the fund is transferred to you. I will be willing to offer you 30% of the total fund if only you will receive this fund and keep it for us.



Please note that honesty is the watch word in this transaction. I will require your telephone and fax numbers so that we can commence communication immediately and I will give you a more detailed picture of things or alternatively you could read the News directly for clarification: https: www.pindula.co.zw/Ignatius_Chombo



In case you don’t accept please do not let me out to the security as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence. I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith.



I appreciate your timely suggestion and interest over this matter.



Kindly reply to this email: silukhuninanette100@gmail.com



Best Regards



Ms. Nanette Silukhuni



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